Just finished reading a blog from Justin Taylor. He speaks of those both inside and outside of the church that, "can't stomach traditional Christianity."
I have to wonder what ever happened that gave people inside the church the right to stomach or not to stomach the faith?
From the very first century - before Paul was off the scene, there were already those who had turned the faith of Christ into something other than conversion to Christ.
Attacks upon the Apostle and perversions of the Gospel make it apparent that human sin nature had infiltrated the churches early on, if not from the beginning. Jude wrote to earnestly contend for the faith once delivered, declaring that certain had crept in unawares to destroy and deny that very faith. Paul warned that wolves would come up from among those in the ministry. Much of his writing was an apology not only for the faith but for his own ministry within the faith. Obviously there were some who could not stomach the ministry of the very Apostle Paul.
What grieves me is that we don't seem to grieve over it today. Rather, we almost relish in the religious banter of those who claim to be of us but who can't stomach us. Traditional Christianity is the only truly sound Christianity. All other types of Christianity are not Christianity at all. Fundamental doctrines (rather than reformed by the way) are those only doctrines that the Apostle Paul or Jude would have stomached. That there are those today who cant stomach them should lead us to pray for them, but not to cater to them.
Marvin McKenzie
In the field
I have to wonder what ever happened that gave people inside the church the right to stomach or not to stomach the faith?
From the very first century - before Paul was off the scene, there were already those who had turned the faith of Christ into something other than conversion to Christ.
Attacks upon the Apostle and perversions of the Gospel make it apparent that human sin nature had infiltrated the churches early on, if not from the beginning. Jude wrote to earnestly contend for the faith once delivered, declaring that certain had crept in unawares to destroy and deny that very faith. Paul warned that wolves would come up from among those in the ministry. Much of his writing was an apology not only for the faith but for his own ministry within the faith. Obviously there were some who could not stomach the ministry of the very Apostle Paul.
Marvin McKenzie
In the field
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